Elaine Pagels Quotes
So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not only involves practice, but also emotion and levels of our experience that are almost precognitive.
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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My father had very little formal education.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
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It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.
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It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barbaric human savage child for a month or so. It was a blast and definitely a great experience.
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Practice makes permanent.
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So often, religion is identified in terms coined by Christianity as sets of belief. But I had the sense that it not only involves practice, but also emotion and levels of our experience that are almost precognitive.
